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The Ant and the Sluggard

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SLUGGARD
The word 'sluggard' appears six times in the book of Proverbs alone, more than anywhere else in the Bible, making it the go-to text for the cost of laziness.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
OVERSEER
Proverbs 6:7 marvels that the ant has no overseer yet never slacks, a pointed contrast to the sluggard who needs to be told twice.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HARVEST
The ant's wisdom is seasonal: she works at harvest precisely because winter is coming. Proverbs frames this foresight as the root of all practical wisdom.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
POVERTY
Proverbs 6:11 warns that poverty will come on the sluggard 'like a thief', swift, uninvited, and entirely avoidable.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About The Ant and the Sluggard

In the book of Proverbs, the ant is held up as a master teacher, no commander, no overseer, no ruler, yet she gathers her food in summer and stores her provisions at harvest. The sluggard, by contrast, folds his hands and sleeps, and poverty creeps in like an armed man. It is one of Scripture's most compact and vivid lessons: that diligence is its own kind of wisdom, written not in words but in the quiet, steady work of the smallest of creatures.

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